Things that make you go.......WTF?

[1061]

[think positive]

not when there is nothing to say, its a sports event, and should remain so, no need to promote sexuality of any kind.

and Putin has said you will not be arrested, just don't **** in the street please, cant see anything wrong with that.

[1061]

not when there is nothing to say, its a sports event, and should remain so, no need to promote sexuality of any kind.

and Putin has said you will not be arrested, just don't hold hands with someone of the same sex in the street please, cant see anything wrong with that.

Edited so we know just what we are talking about as Children might see them.

[David]

[think positive]

[quote="David"]
(On another note, when you say that paedophiles should be lined up against the wall and shot, are you talking about just child molesters or all people who are sexually attracted to children?)[/quote]

if they act on those feelings, yep

[think positive]

im not sticking up for anyone, I just want politics and sex left out of the olympics

[swoop42]

Substitute the world gay with black and most people would be calling for Australia to boycott of the games

Can't see the difference myself.

What a backwards shit hole of a county Russia is.

[David]

im not sticking up for anyone, I just want politics and sex left out of the olympics

Well, due to the IOC's decision to award the 2014 Winter Olympics to a repressive state like Russia, these games thankfully won't be free from either.

[What'sinaname]

im not sticking up for anyone, I just want politics and sex left out of the olympics

Well, due to the IOC's decision to award the 2014 Winter Olympics to a repressive state like Russia, these games thankfully won't be free from either.

Realistically, we can find fault with any country hosting the games, summer or winter. No country is free of faults.

[stui magpie]

I get where TP is coming from, and i also know she's not a homophobe so give the soap boxing a spell.

[1061]

I don't know TP apart from the postings here and frankly it reads as it reads.

[stui magpie]

It reads as you read it.

[Morrigu]

im not sticking up for anyone, I just want sex left out of the olympics

Not a hope Jo - not with all those good bodies in lycra

[David]

im not sticking up for anyone, I just want politics and sex left out of the olympics

Well, due to the IOC's decision to award the 2014 Winter Olympics to a repressive state like Russia, these games thankfully won't be free from either.

Realistically, we can find fault with any country hosting the games, summer or winter. No country is free of faults.

Indeed, but it's the obscene whitewashing of those faults every time the games roll into town that bugs me. I'd be fine if the Summer and Winter Olympics were just some meaningless sporting event (like, say, the soccer World Cup) held every two years in locations around the world, but it's the host countries that choose to spend billions of dollars to stage them and then turn the whole thing into a nationwide PR/propaganda exercise. The hypocrisy really stinks, and particularly regressive countries like Russia deserve all the flak that comes their way.

BTW, Stui, I don't know if you're including me in that, but I never suggested TP was a homophobe. I just think that Putin's justification, together with the policies that he's justifying, are extraordinarily insidious and shouldn't just be accepted with a shrug and an "oh well, fair enough".

[think positive]

im not sticking up for anyone, I just want sex left out of the olympics

Not a hope Jo - not with all those good bodies in lycra